Privacy
Bitcoin researchers target privacy coins with Zcash-style shielded transfers
Shielded Bitcoin aims to replicate key privacy features on BTC, prompting Bitwise to flag a potential headwind for privacy coins.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 5 min read
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Why Zcash soared to $1,600 as Europe unlocks new ETP access
21Shares listed ZCASH in Paris and Amsterdam as ZEC briefly topped $1,600 and ZODL reported elevated privacy use.
Lightning
Bitcoin may go quantum-safe while Lightning privacy stays exposed
A research prototype targets five off-chain Lightning functions, but its default design raises gossip downloads 10.2-fold in tests.
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Ethereum client diversity metrics split three ways as key tracking tools break
Ethereum client estimates already disagree, while daily key rotation could weaken the public traces used to detect concentrated risk.
Payments
Bitcoin’s newest mobile privacy feature can make your incoming money completely invisible
A 255,434-block study puts one scanning feed near 8 MB a day while completeness remains unproven.
Privacy
Ethereum’s privacy push hits a numbers problem: one proof needs nearly twice the proposed gas allowance
An open Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, while studied privacy proofs still exceed its shared 100,000-gas allowance.
Privacy
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin puts 60% odds on a cryptography breakthrough that could weaken Wall Street middlemen
Cheaper encrypted computation could eventually challenge roles played by custodians, auditors, exchanges and clearinghouses.
Hacks
Users exposed by Trezor breach grows sixfold after supposedly deleted shipping logs are found
The larger disclosure implies roughly 80,689 affected customers, though no combined total or row-level overlap check is public.
Price Watch
Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets
Grayscale's ZCSH has grown rapidly since launch as traders pile into derivatives and ZEC returns to crypto’s top 10.
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Regulation
Thailand puts private wallets and offshore crypto transfers on notice in a major new crypto rule
Hacks
Leaked compliance records shatter anonymity of 291 crypto users by matching names directly to wallet activity
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